Author:Boorstin, Daniel J

This Pulitzer Prize-winning final volume of "The Americans" trilogy covers the century following the Civil War (1868-1969). It explores the highways and byways of the American experience, from the Go-Getters who explored new boundaries to the triumph of man landing on the Moon. Paperback. Pictorial cover. xiv, 717pp., index. Full refund if not satisfied. View more info

It is a saga of Heroes of the Imagination, creators who have brought something new into the arts - Homer, Joyce, Giotto, Picasso, Leonardo, Handel, Wagner - from the dazzling vision of the Hindus to the indifference of Confucius and the silence of Buddha to Herman Melville, Kakfka, Ruskin and a host of others. A magisterial work that finds order in the 'random flexings of the imagination' and reveals 'how the new adds to the old and how the old enriches the new, how Pica... View more info

It is a saga of Heroes of the Imagination, creators who have brought something new into the arts - Homer, Joyce, Giotto, Picasso, Leonardo, Handel, Wagner - from the dazzling vision of the Hindus to the indifference of Confucius and the silence of Buddha to Herman Melville, Kakfka, Ruskin and a host of others. A magisterial work that finds order in the 'random flexings of the imagination' and reveals 'how the new adds to the old and how the old enriches the new, how Pica... View more info

New copy. This Pulitzer Prize-winning final volume of "The Americans" trilogy covers the century following the Civil War (1868-1969). It explores the highways and byways of the American experience, from the Go-Getters who explored new boundaries to the triumph of man landing on the Moon. New copy. xiv, 717pp., index. Full refund if not satisfied. View more info

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